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A year ago, Value Pharmacists introduced our readers and members to the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN®). The CPESN concept was expanding across the country. At the time of the blog post, CPESNs had launched in 15 states and
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What do you mean “Fix the Glitch”? The title of our 5/13/2018 blog post had a lot of people scratching their heads. What exactly does it mean? The Value Pharmacists’ “Fix the Glitch” post announced that the Colorado legislature passed
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Colorado House Bill 2018-1313 has passed the legislature. After final enactment and rules promulgation, pharmacists will be prescribers, under certain circumstances, in Colorado. Hear testimony in support of CO HB18-1313 (begins at ~9.5 minutes and lasts over 20 minutes).
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Just 3 months after CVS Health announced its intention to acquire Aetna, Cigna agrees to buy PBM Express Scripts and Albertsons agrees to buy Rite Aid stores. Experts in healthcare are saying these mergers and acquisitions have the potential to
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Many of you have been requesting an update on prescriber status of pharmacists in Colorado since our blog post “Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado – Analysis and Status” in which we asked: Could it be that all the reports in the
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Analysts are saying that Amazon’s possible entry into the pharmacy market could be a “massive threat” to chain and independent retail pharmacy business. So what is pharmacy’s response? The answer is in this headline: CVS Health will launch a new
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Amazon hasn’t said publicly what its plans are in pharmacy, but that hasn’t stopped a constant onslaught of questions from industry analysts, PBM executives and pharmacy chains about the potential for Amazon to get into the prescription business. While we
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If you haven’t heard, you may have a CPESN pharmacy coming to a neighborhood near you. What is CPESN you ask? It could be one of the more important acronyms to add to your alphabet soup vocabulary of acronyms –
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How can pharmacists increase access to important public health services? The answer – statewide protocols. The term statewide protocol refers to a framework that specifies the conditions under which pharmacists are authorized to prescribe, furnish, or dispense without a prescription
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Better integration of pharmacists into the Medicare Part D MTM program is one of the objectives of the CMS Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management Model. This new model is designed to test whether high
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